Internet Influencers ????

[VillainousHero]

There's something about the internet.  If it's on it, then it must be true.  NOT 

There is a lot of information available and given that there are some people who really do represent that information and making it available to others.

Then there's those internet influencers who merely entertain and regurgitate the information in a misrepresented way.  What is up with all these people online doing youtube unboxing of fishing equipment and then giving their in depth review.  People talking about Diawa and Shimano and don't even know the real difference when it comes down to it.  Yes there will always be a fanboy of a certain manufacture, but do they really know what they're talking about or just throwing words written down somewhere by someone else.

People can't even get their parts descriptions correct like, rotor, pinion gear, level wind, ARB, etc.,...now they just throwing words out there in their vids.

I guess I get bored sometimes...

 

[Prude]

There was a concern like that a long time ago on the radio
about foods, too.

Some dietitian was talking on the radio and was asked
why were there so many other things said by others
in pamphlets, etc. about foods that seemed to be
different from what she was saying.

She said this country has free speech and so
people just say things as they want to but that we all
have to be careful about who we get the information from.

I went on TikTok and looked a video. A guy was talking
his favorite 3 lms baits. One he calls Senko. But other
posters said that's not a Senko. It's actually a plastic Gulp
night crawler.

[VillainousHero]

I hate seeing how people net fish on the internet.  It's like no one knows how to net a fish correctly.  I always see people trying to scoop the fish with the net and fails.  Well eventually they do end up scooping the fish.

[Prude]

Our world is full of unskillful people. Unskillful in fishing. Unskillful in netting.
Unskillful in videotaping.

What surprises me, too, is that people do a netting video or something and
it doesn't even show the whole netting process. Like they don't even
show that the fish got fully netted and yet they put that on the net for others
to watch. Just a segment of the netting process... Like someone reaching
for a fish with the net and that's it.

[VillainousHero]

I haven't been paying much attention or even bait clicking anything about fishing lately.  However just then our fellow Hmong fishing folks are suddenly all over the Worden's Rooster Tails inline spinner lure.  I guess Hmong folks have finally begin to figure out the fall fishing, late fall fishing white bass/striper runs.  In part it's thanks to technology and social media.

So Rooster Tails remains a cheap and effective way of catching fish.  Or just rediscovered on the internet influencers.

What influencers don't know is that Rooster Tails are build kind of cheap and if you buy from WallyWorld, about half of them run clunky.  It's just something one knows if one actually fishes with such lures and it's nuances.  IYKYK.  So the question is, are the influencers just looking for likes or are they intentionally misleading the mass? 

[VillainousHero]

I don't know if MN still outlaw the use of catching live bait from one body of water and taking it to another body of water.  If it's illegal.  Dang these internet influencers are just now shooting themselves.

Told them they need to delete their posts.   

[VillainousHero]

Best kept secret.

Secret Pro's don't want to reveal.

Game Changer.

World's strongest fishing knot.

Everybody has a click bait lure. 

[VillainousHero]

Why do people always reach up on the rod blank to pull leverage on it?

For the life of me, I have never reached up on my rod blank beyond the handle grip to pull on the rod with a fish on it.  My musky rod and surf rod, may have an extended fore grip on the rod blank, but those rods are designed for that intended purpose.

[VillainousHero]

When influencers suddenly blurt out claims of having super far casting distances...

120 yards is really like 120 feet given the combo they used.  Even a pro like KVD has his longest casts measured into like 70+ yards.  That's not a casual cast method he uses.  He is using a full body momentum and casting lures in the 1 oz.  Plus he has his performance tuned casting reels, not something someone is going to get off the retail shelves.

Most common casting reels don't hold more than 100 yards and most people use much thicker line diameters.

Most common spinning reels may hold more than 100 yards.  Still most people use much thicker line diameters and the expectation of spinning reels is, that one will be constantly cutting line off the reel from use. 

[VillainousHero]

So since Northland Fishing Tackle of MN was sold to GSM Outdoors which is based in Texas...What happens to all their Pro Staff? 

Are they gonna all quit making youtube videos and being part of the Northland social media?

[VillainousHero]

Dang it's just Blaque Phrydai and facebook is showing mark ups of items people bought.

That vexilar going for $400 is resold for $600 already. 

[theking]

Supply and demand or perhaps just showing off or an attention seeking stunt...? 

[VillainousHero]

Bait the empathy...

I'm so smart but even I was doing this wrong...

[VillainousHero]

Social media marketplace is complaining about how sales price of new item is below their asking price of used equipment...   used equipment priced at about 70-80% of new retail price.

[VillainousHero]

When internet influencers can't tell the difference between rod power and rod action...

medium power medium action??